Sound
Once we had our first draft, we looked for music and decided on "Tomorrow" from the website: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Once we had our first draft, we looked for music and decided on "Tomorrow" from the website: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
You can listen to our music here:
We added the music once we had our first draft, we did not face many issues as we quickly decided on the track above as we felt it would evoke our audience to make them feel what we wanted them too, we wanted it to be clear that Becca was extremely vulnerable and wanted the audience to feel sorry for her. The music brought the piece to a whole other level, and made us watch it in a different way, the music contrasting with the acts of rape and we feel making it even harder to watch.
When one of our teacher's gave us feedback, she thought the music could be too loud, so we exported it to play on a computer hooked up to speakers and noticed that the volume of the music was really overwhelming. We then went back to iMovie and used the adjustments to make our music quieter. We also noticed that there was no background noise on one of our full screen graphics making a clear jump between the surrounding shots with background noise. We learnt how to copy the audio from one shot and place it on another. This made the shots flow better. We also increased the audio of shots with dialogue so that the voices of our actors can be heard above the music.
The issues we faced were quickly resolved, and the music is by far one of my favourite aspects of our opening sequence. I think it brought the shots together in an unexpected way and is beneficial as it makes the audience feel sympathy towards Becca which is what we had planned. The music builds towards the end, when Becca is considering self-harm, which we like, as it represents her emotions and along with the flashbacks in between creates atmosphere.
Super-imposed Graphics
This week we started adding super-imposed graphics to our work in Final Cut Express. Me and my partner were both unfamiliar with this software so it took a while for us to grasp. We had to render the graphics from Livetype and then place them on the certain shots we wanted too. The graphics looked unclear and blurry when we placed them on the film in Final Cut Express. We exported our footage with one super-imposed graphic to see if it remained unclear. There was an improvement in how they looked so we placed them all under the impression that they would look clear when the footage was exported. The super-imposed graphics took us the longest as we had to decide where the credits would be appropriately placed on each shot. We used our shooting script which helped, but we needed to make each graphic longer as they only lasted 2 seconds and change each position of the graphic individually. This was the longest part of production for us so we are glad we finished filming earlier and that we did not have to re-film.
Super-imposed Graphics
This week we started adding super-imposed graphics to our work in Final Cut Express. Me and my partner were both unfamiliar with this software so it took a while for us to grasp. We had to render the graphics from Livetype and then place them on the certain shots we wanted too. The graphics looked unclear and blurry when we placed them on the film in Final Cut Express. We exported our footage with one super-imposed graphic to see if it remained unclear. There was an improvement in how they looked so we placed them all under the impression that they would look clear when the footage was exported. The super-imposed graphics took us the longest as we had to decide where the credits would be appropriately placed on each shot. We used our shooting script which helped, but we needed to make each graphic longer as they only lasted 2 seconds and change each position of the graphic individually. This was the longest part of production for us so we are glad we finished filming earlier and that we did not have to re-film.
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